The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1852, Page 2

| “INTERESTING FROM CUBA. THE MISSION OF JUDGE CONKLING. OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE, The Reported Apology ef the Captain General, e., Be, der Onur advices from Havana, by the Promethens, tare to the evening of the 27th ult. There appears to be some doubt as to the charac- tor of tho arrangement made between the Captain General and Judge Conkling. Our Havana Corresponde nce. Havana, October 23, 1852. Arrival of the Powhatan— Treatment of har Officers —Interview with the Captain General, §e., Se. The U.S. steamer Powhatan, with Judge Conk- Ting and Commodore Newton on board, arrived here ‘@his morning from your city. She arrived off the Moro about ten o'clock last evening, and had to lay | off and on all night, it being deemed imprudent to | enter without a pilot at night. | The following naval vessels are in the harbor, vis:—Three Spanish steamers; one Spanish corvette | steamer; one frigate; one French steam frigate; one corvette, and the United States steamer Powhatan. ‘The latter looks as if she could whip the whole par- ty before breakfast, for she is certainly the most noble looking ship that I have ever seen; and from the experience of this trip, I venture to say she is the fastest war steamer afloat. She made the pas- wage (running time) in less than five days, which you know is tall going for a war steamer. I presume you are aware the Crescent City was again ordered out of the port on the 14th inst. Thave learned since her departure that the Go- | vernor General says, if she returns here again, he will fire into her. Therefore, the probability is that this ship will remain here until the Crescent City retarvs; and ifthe Spanish authorities should earry their threat into execution, you may be sure there will be some fun, for it will never do to stand by and see an American struck, without striking | back. Upon the return of the passengers in the steamer Black Warrior, from New Orleans, after having been ordered out with the Crescent City, they were in- terrogated by the goverament as follows, viz:— “Will you inform us what Captain Porter said, and how he acted, after leaving this port?”—to which they answered affirmatively. Second—* Are you Catholics?’ Answered nega- tively. They were informed they could not be be- Hieved, in consequence, but were requested to pro- eeed, which they did, very much to their owa amusement, but not to the Spanish authorities. The latter took it all down, I presume, as important information, from which you will probably hear Boon. On the day of the arrival of the Powhatan, as Commodore Newton and his suite were on their way to pay their respects to tho Captain General, they were followed by a mob, and hooted at as they pass- | ed along the strects. > Things are coming to a focus very fast. The in- habitants here are very anxious to know what the intention of our government is towards the island. On Sunday, the 24th instant, the Captain General went to the office of the American Consul to pro- cure a copy ofour treaty with Spain. He did notac- tually know that a treaty existed betwern the two | and passengers as usual, fear alone has dictated the | to do as the, | in general, and New enter this port as usual, the mails and be permitted to land; but neither Captain Porter nor Mr Smith, the pursor, will bo allowed to come on shore. * ‘The outrage committed on the bark Cornelia has, 1 oo , not even po ——— Rvenua ¥ as hat we have gaine = Com at a loss to understand. That the Captain General was most anxious that the matter should be settled amicably here, consider how deoply, by his own fully, he bad involved hi goveroment, was ovly uatural, in order to save himeelf from disgrace; but if it is trae that he has | admitted, and, if adwitted, recognized Judge | Conkling’s authority to treat with him directly, | and not referred him—as hag been the case upoa all previous occasions—to the supreme government | at Madrid, then has Genoral Canedo afforded a pre- | eedent which we will know bow to adopt upon a future oceasion. The real fact of the case is, that General Canedo discovered that his secretary, Senor Galiano, had led him’all wrong, and that he remained almost isolated in his opinions as to the course whieh he thought proper to adopt with regara to the Cres- cent City; and, knowing the consequences which could not but ensue by delay, or referenze to Madrid, be has—if we are to believe the rumors which were last evening so extensively circulated in the city— granted the concessions above referred to. But it is for the people of the United States to judge whether the mere conceding to them of what was only their right, will be satisfaction for the re- ted indignities offered to the national dag, in wice dismissing a United States raail steamer from the port of Havana, and other outrages committed | by those authorities, amongst the most glaring of which was that of rifling the mail bag of the bark Cornelia, and the scandalous treatment of her cap- tain by a self constituted authority (the Captain of this port), as published by Captain Ward in tho columns of the New York Heraup, i If it is true that such arrangement has been come to respecting the Crescent vity and that sho will be allowed to enter the port Yand her mails meazure, and ail the rhodomontade, of which so much has recently been published in the columns of the Diario de la Marina, as to the right they have lease with vessels on their waters, goes for nothing, but only places them in a more ridiculous position, oben them, after all their quotations from Vattel, Paffendorf, and so en, to swallow the pills to which they have shown 80 much objection ! * Another Manifesto from the Organ of the Cuban Government, {rom the Diario de la Marina, Oct. 22, 1852.) To say that our neighbors of the United States rleans in particular, are still keeping up their favorite pastime, in the shape of warlike meetings—importans only from the shame which they bring upon those participating in them— would, of course, be saying nothing new, and nothing which could surprise our readers; and so monotonous e become the incidents of this | species of recreation, that we would pass over them | in silence, did they not sccasionally presént unusual | sighis and incidents worthy of being sculptured in | marble, for the greater glory and eternal renowa of | the country. The first item worthy of attention isa semi-anony- mous communication of the most renowned mer- chant-captain Porter, read before the assembly. This epietie, it is said, was directed to the American Consul at Havana, and calculated to prove that the vessels of the United States were in the habit of being insulted in our port. The event especially pointed out appears to be of a remote date, and its | particulars are enveloped in silence, though we have | reasons to suppose that the allusion isto the steamship | Ohio, at the time of tho affair at Cardenas, in 1850. If this wise precaution bas been taken to avoida | i | | | flat denial, all the pains taken with this view havo | been taken in vain. We shall not descend either to | Tecount the circumstance or to a refutation. Lat | it suflice to say that the hero appears to be a re- | doubtable Fierabras, who puts to flight an intinite number of Spanish officers and soldicrs, while, at the caine time, he exbibits great firmness in his in- | and even goes go far governments until some one informed him ofthe as to give them lesvons of urbanity and priety. | fact. So I leave you to judge of his calibre. | These sume authorities, on the other haat bar- The majority of the people here are very anxious | barously and impious!y, even denying the succor of | for the overthrow of the government; and as for the HERay, they are perfectly crazy to get hold ofone. Since writing the above, an interview has taken plsce between the Captain General and our folks, which bas been ofa favorable neture. The former acknowledged he was sorry, and says he will permit our steamers to come und depart without any inter- ference on the part of the Spanish government. The amount of the business is, our government ought to keep a naval vessel or two here all the time, and ‘tben none of these difficulties wonld occur. Bat it is always the case that, just when our Consul ora man-of war is wanted most, that is just the time they are minus. I think, from what I have seen of Commodore Newton, since his arrival hero, that eur government bave hit upom the right man at last, for there is no fark down to him; aud as long: as he remains commander of the Home Squadron, things will go on right, or 1 am much mistaken in the man The Powhatan will go to Pensacola soon, and from thence north. The steamer Jeabel, from Charleston, arrived here this morning The Spanish steamer Pizarro, reeentiy wrecked at Muriel, has beon lightened, and will be got off soon. Havana P.S.—Unless the English steamer arriv ly to-morrow morning, the Powhatan will leave for Vera Cruz, with Judge Conkling. Havana, Wednesday, Oct. 27— PM. The Difficulties Between the Spunish Authorities and the United States not yet Settled. The report se extensively ciroulated in the city last cvening, relative to the arrangements said to have been come to between Judge Conkling and the | Captein General, with regard io an amicable settle- ment of the affair of the Crescent City is incorrect. No arrangements whatever have yet taken place. The report alluded to appears to have arisen from the circumstance of the Collector of the Ous- tem House here having signed an order author- izing the mails and gengers from the American steamers to be permitted to lend; and thie having got abroad, the wise ones consider that this order eould not have been issued except by authority of the Captain General This I have from the best authority, from narties who must w ail about tt. If auything serious arises out of this be: t will be short work for already have an enec The Powhatan le morming, with Jnd English e'eamer, ton, due here on the her appearance Creoles among t Vera Oraz to-morrow ing on board. The ils, from Southamp t, has no} yet made the n 234 inst Havana, October 27, 185 Arrival of the Powhatan at Hiwana—Sprnish Etiquelte— Interview between the Captain General and Judge Ce the Crescent City—Continued £ tain Porter and Purser Affair Overlooked, § , the United Captain Mervi argo Withdrawn from tom of Cap. Smith—The Cornelia steam frigate whatan, ing the broad ponanan’ of Newton, aud having on board » ben Commodore J. P Judge Conkling, United States Minister to Mexico, commissioned to inquire into the circumstances attending the late outreges committed by these au thorities towards the bark Corselia and the mai steamer Crescent City, arrived here from New York, o’elock A. M d firing the on Saturday morning last, about 7) At 11 o'clock the Powhatan comme usual salutes, during which a litile rod which, perhape, is worth meutic ing how prone the Spaniards are to stand y their dignity, even in triflss Daring complimentary salute to the Spanish admiral, ensign of Bpain was of course hoisted at the fore of the Powhatan, but in dropping the topsail, accor- ding to etiquette, the Spanish flag was by accident lowered @ little, and became hidden by the sai This happened only after twoor three guna had been fired. It was altogether an socident; but the Spaniards having observed it, when they roturned the ealute from their frigate Usparanza, the alter firing two or three guns, hauled stars and etripe the modore, teeing that they had evidently taken effence at what was en- ively a mere accident on his part, sent.on board the Esparanza to apologise @ 7 also, jowa the an con About 12 o’elock, J udge Conkling and Commo- dors Newton, attended by several oflivers the Powhatan, waited upon the Captain Geaeral, with whom they had an audience of about ten minutes They were mobbed, hooted aud hissed hy about forty or fifty wegroes and Catalans (who had hired the negroes) from the place where they landed to the Consul’s office, aud trom thence to tho gate of the palace The gentlemen appeared wo take the in- sult very coolly, laughing and talking one to another, quite indifferent to the elegant expreesions made use of by the low-lived Catalans On Monday, Judge Conkling again had an tnterview with (General Canedo, which lasted about three hours. He saw the Captain Ge neral yesterday, and I understand the result of Judge Coukling’s last conference with His Excelien- ay is, that the Crescent City will be permitted to water to a thirsty w. The only answer such | ions deserve, is to be branded as shameless i Doubtlees, Mr. Porter recollected his in the case of the French frigate Laura, asingular confusion of ideas, attributed to others what he would, perhaps, heve done in a si- milar case. The little importance, moreover, with which this stale and dried-up complaint was treated by tho American Consul at Havana, is clearly showa by his silcnes; and we can from this judge of the consideration to which it is entitl Bat though we refuse a discussion with an adver- eary of such a choracter, it would, peyhaps, not be amiss to p! matters in their proper figue, When, in the beginning of 1346, the question of Oregon was being debated, with grea’ before the Senate at Washi claims of England aud the Uni into contact, uppeered likely to produce a col! between the two countries, there was a small, insig. nificant papor published at Washington, known as the Times. This sheet one day ventured to ace! such of the Senators as entertained and oxpr: moderate opinions on this subject, of being sub by the gold of England. Ji wont on still far ted, as a proof, a banquet given by nister plepipotentiary, on which occas’ sain and sale of these parliamen sciences was debated and effe \ of the Senate was y well be imagined. : mense, aud tho e E d to justify hia securation. It wes then ascertained that the author of these tions wa rtain Mc. Porter, lieutenant in the American navy. a gontleman (by courtesy) whose ion is sufficientiy clear. The worthy youth did not hesitate to acknowledge that he was’ the ao of the grand discovery brought to lig the Times; be was, however, compe le acknowledgs that his suspicions only res found contempt (!) which be had fr orial entertained against the manufae gilish dip'omasy in general, end Mr. Pal 1 in particular. Uafor- tunately, ibe profound contempt of eo eminent a personage did not convinse the Senate, and both the editor and e expelled from the acats reserved fe 8 amark of high esteein, which the ed in the eyes of ail norable men. ficient to de urged by t nothing en who, wh able desire to become notorious, even tae comission of dis- ald 2 PE ) surpass the fayings and de , but an o iaek, ar » make the « = of forn 1 to inteprete Larrue, 28 we fi orator, we re t also Mea continent will form p ernational law, ¢ and other authors, Tt bas fal t to the spirit of the ago.” To parody hore the oft-quoted invoctives « have noth 10, in bis first oration azat eayor of tho ridic h that we can exclaim wit 4 s! But there eed of boi og it to bear Jett in all th themeelve equ eloquently enough of being trumpeted bough we ha tongues of F arned J ms could reach th and justic progrets—the cnomies, in a word, of tas buman race’ And that such doctrines, (procln who, out of respe lowg, onght t at their y fruit, in is sure er f formed think with not dispense to inscribed in whatever might happ: own opinion, be w even confer upon the ligent municipal ay pethmnnce even eg th salar dictatorship, other modero 4 enjoyed ite Lynch dictatorship by special privi : Wetad never before, however seen ite existe offic and so candidly admitted. We make note of t new democratic confession ia the spirit of its much beasted privileges, and we leave ig qualifica- tions to those stationary Europeaw countries where there still exists the exploded and monarchical no- tion that written laws are worthy of some little | gal of his int were alroady had ite con- | Tespect. | Captain Mervine, bearing the broad pennant of | this part of the world, instead of writing you » | it will net be known unj ABRIVAL OF THE PROMETHEUS. Our Nicaragua Correspondence, Sie de, Me. The steamship Prometheus, Cap}. Churchill, ar- rived yesterday morning. She left San Juan del Norte Oot. 234, and arrived at Havana on the morning of the 27th. She left on the same evening at seven o'clock, and arrived off Sandy Hook at six o'clock on Monday evening. The steamer Independence left San Francisco on the Ist of October, and arrived at San Juan del Sud on the morning of the 16tb, with two hundred pas rengers. The United States steam frigate Powhatan, John Thomas Newton, was at Havana. She ar- rived on Saturday the 234, all well. The Prometheus has had very thick foggy wea- ther from Cape Hatteras, and was detained outside on that account. We have received our files of La Gaceta del Gover- node Costa Rica to the 9th ult., published at San Jose. We translate the items which we find most interesting. Juan Rafael Mora, President of the republic of Costa Rica, has published the following decree, with the aim of favoring the schome of German co- lonization, of which the first action promises ul- ready the most favorable results, and to encourage the efforts of the company of North to open an im- portant way of communication with the Atlantic:— I decree :—Ist Article.—There will be established eommander for the port of Linson, on the 1st of January, 1862. Article 2d —There will. be provisionally a Commander of Port. who will have also the authority of Governor of the population which is formed in it, amply authorized wy. ‘ avecamant c take. all means of police and se- curity wi ew dispensable. Ardcle 2d.—Tho Ministers of Finance and War are authorized to give effect to and execute the decree Given in the city of San Jose, on the sixth day of Octo- ber, 1852, Guatamara, October 2, 1852. The ordinary courier of the conduct informs us thet General Carrera had arrived with troops on our frontier, and that the true motive was not yet known, In that capital the inhabitants formed thousands of conjectures since the circumstance, so as to have propagated the notion that the Salvador had some alarming pro- nuncismentos. In the State of Salvador there was no alteration in the | B; public affairs. What is certain is, that the incideats | which eccurred between the commander of the district of Zulipiata and the mouicipslity of Anahuacapan, bad por seen with surprise, and condemned by public opinion, ‘The other news from Central America relates that tran- quillity ie only disturbed at some moments in Guatamala. Between Guatamula and San Salvador several controver- eles bad taken place, on account of the refugees of the mountains. A body of troops of Guatamala entered the Department of Sonsonate. near Anabuacapan, and created a considerable alarm. The commandant of Zuliatapa iutimsted to the municipality of Anahuagapan, to not fear the expulsion of the refugees. ‘That affair will, no doubt, finish by an amiacable arrangement. From Honduras and Nicaragua there is nothing parti- cular. Peace is generally reigning in Central America Our Nicaragua Correspondence. Granana, (Nic.), Oct. 12, 1852. The Threatened Revolution—The Transit Company —Management of the Steamship Lines, §c., §c. I. would have written to you many months ago, had I not preferred to be quiet until I could give youan impartial and true statement of affairs in quantity of things which I would be obliged to ro- callin my next. During the last year I have becn watching the movements of the different politics! | parties, and the *¢ Accessory Transit Company”—the | principal foreign, and better said, the only interest of the country. Political matters have been of very little impor- tance. People of this country are daily expecting a revolution, but it never takes place. Munoz is eaid (Since three years) to be landing with 500 or 5,000 Californians, to invade Nicaragua—still ho has not arrived, and most probably never will. I never | saw a people more story-telling, and story-be- lieving than the Nicaraguans. The Presideutial election takes place in November, but the result of rch. Castellon (isto Minister of Nicaragua ‘Court of St. James) | will be the man. The interference of the United States and Great Britdin in the Costa Rica and Nicaragua boundary question, has made great excitement. The govers- ment and people are “ muy bravo” with the cora- missosers, and have protested, solemnamente, por fa solerama dela Republica Nicaragua. How tas protest will have any effect I cannot say, yet wo shall cee the consequences of it—but I cannot make out who gave power to the United States and Eng land to dispose of the property of a foreign, thouga weuk, power. is it not the confidence of a great wer to treat with a miserable, helpless State! I lieve that it would only be a benetit to Nicurages if England and the United States would manage its aflairs, but that this is injustice, 1 do not doabs. The interest of the country is nearly connected with the welfare of the Accessory Transit Company, and about the business of this company I can give you the following reliable information. In the beginning of this year, the businees of this company had been very Proepecpue indeed, and would be the same, or still better, now, had not the company experieneed indirectly disndvan- tages and heavy losses, by the bad management and fai ich have happened co tne steamers connecting with this Transit 1 Sur. ved in public, that the steam- 3, (Atlantic and Pacific) are the property of the Accessory Transit Company. i flias been more confirmed by Mr. Corne- t being President of the Accessory who has advertised the line in nis steamers, as ‘ Vanderbilt’s” al belief is a great mistake. The Company has the oaly of ngera as quick and comfortable to ocean.~ There all the ob- esory Transit Company ceaee, y of the ocean steamers bogins. Atlantic | been of gers)—i ° loave a lot nd, for want of accommodations. was sent «round Cape Horn to meot sopgers at San Juan del Sur; pas: wait for this propoller throe or tour them not prepared for such a detea- and getting sick and into dif ie. loss of the stcamor North America, of Mr. Vanderbilt’s late agont body wil easily tiad vieh the par from o Add to the wy p ran ness getting woreo, inetead of 6 poor managemont of the Pa- route hag been the cause that eded as everybody anticip on the transit route, which could be made, are either done or in progress. Thero is, in fact, no detention on tho Iethmus, as the ad~ Vertisements generally say, but seldom falfil. If ibe direc ors of the company will take good advico, | should recommend them to leave their ronte open for competition, on both ocew that muy land on either side. T I believe, is the only way for the company to reg: heir oid popa- larity, and to make ® good business. In ail other respects, thieline will compete well with the Panama orany other route across the Isthmus. Let me tell you something about the land route, and the way bu is done principally on the part | of the route between Virgin Bay and San Juan del 5 All the improv: The land route is ut twolve slong, and paseengers go on muleback, ona pleasant, shady road, in about three hours, even in the rainy season, from last fall ax deep m brushwou Mr. F with Colon route.) has the ne end to the other. Ali the places which | in the beginuing of this spring were only holes, are ly filled up with logs, | makes a capital road. | engineers who came out ke the surveys of the of the r nd pas- perint cengers aay he bas made great improvements indeed. Last year, tho great sity of mules ofcen caused ¢ dmay woubles. Since Siarch this at, John T, Doyle, year, the company’s Inte t with a German, Hoary Neq , bas made & coutr Gottel, to furnish not on®y sufficient saddle mules for the p ngers, but also to transport all the bag- gege from Virgin Bay to San Juan dei Sar, and | tve versa. The coniract is, f under: one your, and the contractor is, by a bound to fallil his contract Mules are, in consequence of this arrangement, | now always abundantly on haad—often eeven bun dred for two hundved and fifty passengers—watting | for tue arrival of the steamors, and I can asstro | ou a good deal of fun to see a lot of males Jumping aud galloping towards Saa Juan, waen" the tule owners have been advised of the arrival of a steamer by @ courier. All the ladies are provided with side-enddlos, and children too small to ride are carried by natives Baggage is checked on one end of the route, and | delivered’ ogainst the countercheck on the other | | on the Pacific side of this route—a deficiency of good, | water-lilies. It is a grave, quiet place, and in itself, or five ivi F at San aan same = DA the time ww lecriyens 1 ~ ang'y sd i 5% follot oon, Ban Juss del Norte. ‘ Little rain has fallen this season, and the Cha- lin, @ locust, has devastated many cornfeids. ‘ant of corn, water, and fodder will be great noxt year. It in vaid that a line of clipper ships, and transit er bungo, will be established in opposition to the coessory Transit Compnny. [ foar it is like Muioz—alwaye expected, and never coming. Whenever anything of importaace or interest takes place in these quarters, you shail be informed by your obedient servant, 0 San Juan pet Norte, Oct. 21, 1852. The Military Movement of the Nicaragua Govern- ment—Threatened Attack on San Juan Del Norte —The Preparations of the Inhabitants to Defend the Place, §c. By reference tothe Webster and Crampton treaty, yon will discover that the whole of the left bank of the Rio San Juan is awarded to the Btate of Costa Rica. Now, about sixty miles up the river, on that left bank, is situated a village, called the Castillo, (from the rapids Castillo Viejo,) settled almost wholly by Americans, employés of, and most of them dependent upon the Transit Company, or the business incident thereto. This is the half way stopping place of the transit, where passengers aro transferred from one steamer to the other; and this point has never been denied to Nicaragua—nevor was claimed by either Costa Rios or Mosquitia. Since the promulgation of that treaty, Nicaragua has been sending small bands of soldiers, from time to time, te that point, until, at length, she h concentrated there a force of about two hun- dred, under the command of Colonel Montenegro, famous in the annals of tho warfare of the State. What the object of this large body of soldiers at this mall village could be, we, in this towa, could not divine; but suspecting—and, as I have learacd, just- ly, too—that an attempt upon this place was medi- tated, and having become somewhat alarmed by va- rious reports that they were slowly moving down the river, we made preparations to defond our own “de facto” independent government until our self- constituted gi jans, the United States and Great ritain, ehould bid us surrender. ‘Two military companies were organized from ones the Jamai- cans, and one among the Americans and Germans— the latter choosing for their officers Captain B. Mooney, and Lieutenants Charles Wassmann and HH. L. Stevenson. The three companies have been drilling nightly, and are prepared to meet any force with which Nicaragua may attempt to subdue us. Several nights the town has been posted round about with watchful sentinels; but in consequence of symptoms of revolution having beea ar discovered in Leon, the government were un- able to spare # force large enough for the enterprise projected. A few months since, Nicaragua might have gained the eonsent of the people of this towu by liberal concessions, and the permission of oxer- cising our own municipal affairs; but having enjoy- ed the delights of independence for a season, we are not disposed to yield to a power scarcely supe- rior to ourselves. Other motives beside the above, actuated Nica- ragua in garrisoning the Castillo, viz: to erect a custom house there, to oblige the Transit Company to pay stricter obedience to the terms of their char- ter, and more seebees to the laws of the country, to prevent smugg) ings ana to keep an eye on Costa Rica, for it would be no difficult matter for that State to invade Nicaragua via the Serapaqui river. The management of the transit has much im- roved under the supervision of Thomas Baldwiu, Keq., the present general agent ; but it is sadly de- ficient in steamboats judiciously constructed. There are some on the way out I believe. There is fault rapid steamehips. For example, when the steamship Pacific comes down, the passengers are landed in New York in twenty-three days from San Francis- co, but by no other vessel is it accomplished 39 quickly, showing the capabilities of this route if proyerly equipped. It is quite clear that this is the quickest route, by an average of five days; but a great reform is needed in all its stages, to enable it | vo regain its diminished reputation. 1 would say to | the Accessory ‘Transit Company, to place the neces- eary facilities in the hands of the present general | agent, and their portion of the California journey | will be properly ree then renovate fhe ocean | journey on the Puacifie, and the Nicaragua route will again become popular. L. 8. Our Massachusetts Correspondence, Coxcorp, (Mass ,) Oct. 26, 1852. The Country—Autuma Forests—West Cambridge — Watiham-- Weston—Lincoln—Concord—Emer- son—Hawwthorie—The Battle-Ground—The Mon- ument—The River-—The Assabeth—Walden Pond—Indian Legend—Revolutionary Services of Concord, $c. On the principle that it is good to go forth into the fields—as laid dowa by some eminent poet or other—a day or two since I left the smoke, and dust, and turmoil of the city, for a country jaunt, taking the Fitchburg railway train, as the road be- longing to that company is understood to pass through some of the finest parts of the State. I eunnot say that I found it much in advance of other railways inthis respect. The first ten or twelve miles of the road certainly run through a very highly cultivated country, portions of which might compare well with aume parts of England; but this is owing, I suspect, to its vicinity to a great market like Boston, where everything that oan be raised finds a ready sale at good prices. Tho town of Weat Cambridgo is especially rich in land, which commands great sums. The railway station is ata point famed all over tho country for the romantic charscter of its raral beauty. At this point, many wealthy Bosion merchants, bankers, &s , reside— persons whore barns are, aaa genoral thing, better | than other people’s houses. Between West Cam- bridge ond Waltham the country is very beauti- ful, having just enough of wildne:s about it , to please. Waltham itwelf is a fine town, | f between four and five thousand inhabi- tants, It is a very animated piace, and one of | the oldest manufacturing towns in New England. | Like all such wanufacturing tuwns that I have seen, it abounds with beautiful girls, who work some | twelve houra per day for the benefit of the soraggy- | necked dames of Beacon street —for it is impoasinio | to find on the face of this globe a more hideous look- ing female aristocracy than that of Boston, into Whose ranks all that id disagrecablo in appeurance seems to have the right to be admitted. Bat they are very winiable and intelligent, it is said—as they need to be. This system of Jong hours of labor in | hot rooms is fatal to female bloom, ond theretoro, if | wo except the comparatiy ecent arrivals, tho lily redominates over ihe rose ia the checks of New Ungland’s factory girls Weston, the next town to Waitbain, is remarkable more for pretty women than | for ‘apythi else that I have been able to discover Lincoln is a qnict little place, about sixteen miles | from town, wad famous for its fruit, part peaches, which are among the bi dant in the country, while nothing is more diffic: to raiae at Concord, although the places are not | quite four miles apart. Tho ride aloug tho whole of there twenty miles, which oceupies about fifty min- utes, is through a perfect glory, if 1 may so call | it, #t this particular season, in consequence of the rich and various hues presented by the trees ae the pensive days ef antumn. I was told | that I should have made my trip three weeks earlic if L desired to roe New Hoglaad’s autumn in its perfection, ro fer aa regarde the forests; but I must | say that it could not have beon a great deal fuer, | though from the fact that cool weather has eet in evr | lier than usan) this year, this autumnal garniture muy be alittle more “seedy” than it should be int week of October. I remomber that Lord Car! not the present nobleman of that title, but his grand. father, 1 think, who came to Amorica, as ono of the British cotamissioncrs, in 1778—writing from your city to # friend in England, speaks of the singular beauty of our forests in the Fatl. All foreiguors aro of the samo mind, that have been favored by the eame spectacle, Your Halleck was right when, Te of New Eagland’s peculiarities, ho men tions The rainbow beauty of the forest loaves.” is situated on the river of the same namo, a slug- gish stro am, and filled with sweet flag and sveoter perhaps, not likely to attrac’ more attention than any other®mall country town Butit has a place in history, and is uow, and has been for years, the residence of the queerest sot of genit that ever existed —peraons, apparently A dad out of employ by tho wearing | away of the lamp and the ring that in the good ol days of faith and neoromancy were found so nsofal to Messrs. Aladdin, Noureddin & Co , of Ispahan, Hero lives Ralph Waldo Emerson, who ie apposed to be a great original genius, though thero are | especially, abounding. A partof the main street | tree at the incoming o! | for tho re | $50,000. Who shall say what was the worth of tho | | Concord is a town of wbout 2,400 inhabitants Tt | | | | those who declare that he is simply obscure, and considered great only becaw understand his want of ra jong standivg friendship between him and Mr. Fmergon hed’ more than anything else to do with the change Here he wrete his “ Life of Franklin erve,” and bere he finished the ‘* Blithedale “Romance,” which, according to some persons who shad be pameless, contains a great many real char- acters—Zenobia being no less a personage than the late Margaret Puller Ossoli. Another notability is | Wiiham Ellery Channing, who is supposed to have great powers, but who lacks that gift of expression without which ail other gifts are ree in vain. If Homer would only have thought the Liliad, of what ould his genius have been to the world?! Mra. Chanving is » sister of Signora Ossoli. Mr. Alcott, of Orphie Sayings memory, did reside here, but ho is now ip the bi and unromantic region of elsewhere. Hore bo was incarcerated in jail, by that “man | of wrath,” Sam. Staples, because he would not pa’ that intolerable imposition of tyramny—a poll- tax There are many queer visiters to Concord, at- tracted by the fame of Amerson, and by the charac- ter of the place. “Never,” as Hawthorno said years ago, “was a poor little country village infesved with such a variety of queer, strangely dressed, oddly: be- haved mortals, most of whom took upon themselves to be important agents of the world’s destinies, yet were simply bores.of a very intense water.” But it is pot merely reformers of the queer stamp that are to be found here. Prgctical politicians are very abundant. 1 doubt if there is another town in the United States, of anything like the same size, which hag an equal number of public officers and ox- office-holders. There is here an ex-member of Congrers, an ex-Judge of the Common Pleas Court, a Judge of that Court, a Trial Justice, five ex-State Senators. (a sixth died but a few wooks ago.) the County Treasurer, two ex-Custom house ofticers, a State Councillory an ex-State Councillor, the Chief Clerk of the State Treasury, a Custom house officer, &c. One of the present candidates for | Congress resides here. Most of the county and district conventions are held here, by all parties. There were six political conventions held here last week. The Middlesex County Agricultural and Manufacturing Fair is held annually in Concord; and the display of fruit at the last fair was the finest ever made in New England. The temperance men, apolitionista, &c., occasionally hold their eonven- tions bere. The Court of Common Pleas sits here several times in the course of the year. The Su- preme Baie used to hold one of its terms in Concord. In politics, Concord is decidedly democratic, and I believe it has always been so. In 1848 there were but sixty-two whig votes cast here, the remainder being divided between democrats and free soilers. | The democrats had a plurality even during the | height of the free soil storm. Concord’s historical placo is due, as you well know, to the fact that the war of the Revolution commenced in her midst, and on tho banks of the | piacid stream that bears her name. About a quar- ter of a mile from the centre of the town stands a small but very handsome granite obelisk, on which is inscribed the important fact that here, on the 19th of April, 1775, was made tho first forcible re- sistance to the British arms. There has long beens dispute, which, I presume, will last until the end of time, whether resistance was first made to the English in Concord or at Lexington. Ali that is certain is, that the English fired first at the Amer- icans in Lexington, which fire the Lexington men say was returned, while the Concord advocates say it was not. A third party has come in, and claims the honor for the town of Acton, about five miles ubove Concord. It was an Acton man, Capt. Davis, who was first slain at Concord bridge by the Eng- lish, A monument was last year erected to his memory, at Acton, by the State government. Hard by the Concord monument, and close to the wall that divides what is called ‘ the battle ground” | from the estate of the Ripley family, is the grave of the firat two British soldiers slain in the great war for our Mndepeedence. ‘ Soon,” says Hawthorne, “was their warfare ended—a weary night march from Boston—a rattling volley of musketry across the river—and then these eal years of rest! In the long procession of slain invaders who passed into eternity from the battle-fields of the revolution, these two nameless toldicrs led the way.” That house on your lett,as you stand on the bat- tle ground with pees face to the river, and which has so quiet and eminently rural an appearance, is destined to be, or rather is, famous. It stood there at the time of the battls, and was then inhabited by Dr. Ripley, who died there sixty-seven years after, having, Jike good l'ather Hooper, a large con- gregation in the church andy one in tho churchyard. Emerson wrote some of his finest things in that old, gray, embowered parsonage. There ‘hristmas Banquet,” Hawthorne wrote [he CI several others of bis best tales from tho place of their bi that Fuller or Feltham | that grew in the lake chapge | day, (wy informant sai | close, _ Where, Ido not know; but on the right hand sice of the come from “hee Waloen pond, it of water, and baving some peculiarities. It usedto ~ remind me of that gl: Black Forest, near Bude en. pee the ifanmete Pe cere 4! whieh there are so many storied ee Naa particularly one by Schnetzler, com= im Mummerlsee. iin dunkeln see, Da biihn der Lilien viele,” &e, which repreeenuts thet at midnight the lilies to ' maidens, who dance upen the strand, until they aro called Wa ed birt cgay the Spirit of the wake, at the fret ghic; the dawn. SValdea pond also has its pent?) sak rather eurious it is. Some thonsands of years ago—the Lord only knows how meny—a tail hill occupied what is now the site of the pord. It so happened that on @ certain holy it was Sunday, but I bee lieve that the notions of the Indians respecting Sunday wero rather indefinite, their education om that point having been sadly neglected) the Ine diaus were assembled on the hill, when it was pro- posed that they should go into committes of the whole for bolding a pow wow, or devil’s meeting, - one cf toes phe to whieh Ty many re 80 ypioas people have rerort, in the hope of propit C4 the evil principle. A respectable old aquaw, whe ‘was present, declared that some terrible-evil woul be the consequence of such blasphemous conduct; but “young India” fo its thumb to its nose, and, voting the old lady an old fogy, proceeded to get ready for its’ Mubolical worship; whereupor she gave them a wide birth, probably, at the same time anticipating th of the late Colonel Crockett when delivered. vale- dictory to hie constituents. She hed hardly got off the hill when it commenced sinking, like the aspire ing blood of Lancaster, until it was seen no more, +, its occupants all disappearing with it, and a clear, pepe ey ely ph 1s this one of ihe stories of 8 5 it grand cataclysm Ww! broke up the Ojd World ? 4 It is said that Waldon nna *sympathises” with, the great Western lakes, being low whon they are, and full when they are. - No other cause acems to: have any effect im increasing or decreasing the of its water. During the dryest seasons it is fe when the river is reduced to a mere brook. It is very cold, clear and deep. Henry Thorean (whom I should have mentioned —- the ities of Concord) once sounded it, and found its depth to be 103 fect. This ** touching bottom” was the source of great ‘satisfaction to somo worthy people here, who, supposing that it was bottomless, matus rally interred that it must be the mouth of the bot- tomless pit; and, as all things have their uses, they did not exactly like the idea of Concord being a sort of portal to a place with which it has so little in common. Ihave said that Waldon pond did resemble the Mummelsee. Thia was before the w that sure reunded it on three sides (the fourth is the railway) were cut down The barbarism of felling the treog for the eake of the wood has made the land much resemble a beau'iful woman with her head shaved Tam a charitable man, but I trust there ig nothing unchristian in the wish that the gentleman, by whose orders this act of vandalism was pei trated, may be roasted for only one hour by a slow fire made of the green wood thus torn irom that setting which r: ndered it the crowning glory of ong of nature’s loveliest creations. }OLONNA. Mr. Webster and Mr. Winthrop, “Men talk of Mr. Webster’s probable sucsessor in the State Department. What may be thought elsc- here, Mr. Winthrop’ chances of being called to the vacant are thought to be good. He came near being (ey ‘ to it at the very time it was given to Mr. Webster. He had reason te believe that he was to be Mr. Clay- ton’s successor, and it is unders' that he never forgave Mr. Webster for stepping between him and the place. Each gentleman was said, at the time, to have the same object in view, each wishing to enter the State Department to provent his being mixed up with, or affected by, the then impending defeat of the whigs in Massachusetts. Mr. Webster had the most to fearfiom such a detoat,as his term of service was about to expire, and he was by no means certain of a re- election to the Senate, even if the whigs should carry the Legislature. There is now another opportunity afforded for the promotion of Mr. Winthrop. Mr. Fillmore is said to be partial to him, and would, by preference, have taken him in 1850, but was over- borne. He has qualifications for the place, and certainly is conservative enough to pursue that hu- miliating foreign policy which appears to constitute _ Mr. Fillmore’s idea of Americanism. It is true that Mr. Winthrop had become Mr. Webster’s personal and political enemy, and, therefore, it would seem like an insult to the great man’s memory to appoint him ashis successor ; but then the Presideat has come out for Scott, and doubtless wishes to concil- iate that portion of the whigs who killed Mr. Webster. hat a lucky thing it would be for Mr. Winthrop, if General Scott come into the Presidency, and find him there in March.” Mr. Wi.throp has not been in the habit of noti- cing anonymous communications in the New York HERALD oreleewhere But the peculiar circumstances of the moment, which give something of historical ~ called ‘*Mcsses from an: will remain and after many laurels | importance to everything connected with Mr. Web- thall have withered to . Mr. Bancroft once | ster’s name, render it fit that the extract thought of living in the . It is just the | froma letterin the Heratp of Saturday last, deted place for @ scholar, 80 80 sequestered, and | Bones oat ao 1852, and signed Algoma, should dreamy is it. not i jout remark. An English y, i itis true that, on the death of General Taylor res Concord river to Md and the dissolution of his cabinet, Mr Winthrop’s ler, when ‘of tho Dame was mentioned for the State Department, in being thrown connection with that of Mr. Webster. Aa soonas © This brook did this fact was made known to Mr. Winthrop, in such into Severn ; | a ren sarnmone GD) upon Ate yut 2) ‘elie | parent presumption, Mr. Winthrop w: on Pros. te ae | Kent Willmore, and stated to him explicitly, thet be ig ocean The delightful author already more than once quoted, declares that positively lived for three weeks on the banks of the ‘Avon before he clearly ascertained in which direc- tion the current flowed. Ihave watched it by the hour, and I should perjure myself were | to swear that Lknew from my own observation that it had any current whatever. This utter want of “ power” on the part ofits river has saved Concord from what some people consider the curse, and others the nuis- ance, of factories, and left it what it was seven-nnd- feventy years ago, when it burst upon the world, through’ the baptiem of blood—a calm, pleasant, rural town, inhabited by farmers ond other quiot, virtuous, kind-hearted people—above the average, even of New Bnglend, in point of intellect and in- | telligewoe—libera! in their ideas, but not rash or rone to innovation in their action. No town that | have seen is better provided with trees-—the elm, Es seems to be perfectly arched over with towering elms. There 18 in front of the Court House a mag- nificent tree of this kind, which, in the good old times, was used as a shipping post, at which that chosen veesel of Puritan legislation, the coustablo, used to scourge the devil out of (perhaps I should say into) offenders against public order. Tho hamadryads mast hav fled shrieking from that hristianity into Concord. The revolutionary services of Concord were far from being confined to the part that her people took in the action of the 19th of April. To sy nothing of what her inhabitants had done towards getting up thet revolutionary war, they wore really heroival in their exertions throughout the contest. During the first. year of tho war tho town sent seventy-four men to the army with which Washington besieged the Eoglish in Boston, and had 100 minute mon ready for service. When Washington teok posses- sion of Dorchester Heights, thus driving the cnemy forever from Massachusetts proper, Concord sent 145 men to his assistance. Of the five thousand men raised by Massachusetts in tho last half of 1776, Concord farnishod sixty-eeven. She sent large | quantities of wood and hay to Washington's army, ntributing monoy, grain, wood, aud mea! ‘ef of the people of Boston. Afterwards, she meintained eighty: two citizens of Boston during aportion of the siego. Previous to the war, tho town’s taxes kad not execeded one thousand dollors or annum, but in the last year of the contest, they faa reached to almost ten thousand dollars. There wes not during the wer to send her full quota, and whoze sup- port she raised moncy, provisions, clothing, ond so forth. [tis no exaggeration to say that the “material aid” which the contributed to the revolu- tionary cause could not hove fallen much short of made not single levy of men which Concord did blood she contributed? And all this was done by a town that then contained but 1,300 inhabitants! ‘nis was @ eolitery instance of what was done by Now England towne for the country’s canse Beside Concord river, there is another stroam | here, called the Asenbeth, which is a tributary of the former. It is a raoet romantic stream, aad never before seoing it, had Lany just idea of Garcilago’s silencio de la selva wmbrosa—for it is through a “shaded glen” that ove sails almost inperooptibly over the culm boeom of the Agsabeth. Tho troes frequently meet over it, Gowers blossom along its nks, und the “white lily ef lake” amiles or sleeps cn the uumurmunpg Waters Even when noon is at its height, not a ray of the sun ever ponetrates the leefy dome that crowns this temple thet Nature hag raivod in her own honor; | but here, more than in any cathedral raised | by mortal hands, is that, “dim religious light’ | which Milton saw passing through the * storied win- dows’? of England’s vencrable edifices of the faich. A Hellenic imagination would have peopled this peautiful river with naiades, and made it tne scone of some fine legend A Gorman poet would have endowed it with undines, and have written » volume onits beauties. Perhaps tho chief regrot hore felt is, thot ro much good water is all wasted for the want of a proper fall, nature having beon uncom. monly niggard in that respect. | Wiest must decline being considered a candidate for the State Department under any 3 but even if he desired it ever so much, nothing would ae him to stand in the way, if the services of Mr. Webster could be secured for that pa! or for any other offico in the Cina and that, though he had not been able to agree with Mr. ~ Webster of Jate upon every point of public policy, he was decidedly and earnestly in favor of Mr. Webster's abt as Secretary of State, and that he should regard the helm of government as saferin Mr. Webster's hauds at that moment, or at any moment, than id those of any other man living. Mr. Winthrop’s course on this subject, without any intervention of his own, became known to Mr. | Webster, and was the ovcasion of repeated and most agreeable personal acknowledgments. It is utterly false that Mr Winthrop ever becama cither ‘*the personal or political enemy of Mr. Web- ster.” It may bo that a few of Mr. Wobster’s pro- | fessed friends have shoren to consider him such. Certain it is, that they have thought it not uawor- thy of them to make Mr. Winthrop the sabject of * pertevering misrepresentution, and have even seemed to think, during the lest week, that the honors to the dead were incomplete, without some show of in- justice to the living. Butif there beany evidence that their course origiuated in any feelings of Mr. Web« ster, it is yet to be produ Such a supposition would be entirely inconsistent with the repeated assurances which Mr. Winthrop has received from Mr. Webster himeeif, wi hin no long pay oul At apy rate, it is enough to say, that Mr. Win- throp is conscious, this day, of no act or thonght towards the late illustrious statesman, from the hour at which he entered his office as @ law stadent in to the hour at which he attended the faneral ohvequies at Marshfield, in any degree inconsistent with a just respect and a true friendship. Mr. Winthrop has no dizposition to make Apes of his personal retations to Mr. Webster, but he docs not intend that the record either of his public or of bis private lifo, ons subject of so much in- terest, shal! be falsified without exposure. Boson, November 1, 1852. ROW. » ion Relative to the hig Party, {from the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, Nov. 2.) We give room to the fullowing with much pleasure :— Hore Desr ‘The Bulletin of this afternoon contained a card. od © Daniel Webster Libelied,? in which a peragraph from this morning's Pennsyloanian purport- Mr. Webster's Predi Bs | ing to be the dying mesenage from Daniel Webster to Rufus Choate, is denounerd 8 an *‘ infamous slander.’? and wy vame is given as the author of “the libel.” My connection with this matter is easily stated. On my return from a visit to General Pierce, on Thura- day act. Letopped for a dey in the city of Boston. where i bud the honor of an introduction to Peter Harvey. Fou , of that city, tho intimate, personal, and political fricnd of the lamented Webster. In the course of & con- verralion with a mutual friend and myeelf, Mr, Harvey 1d in substance as follows set sie, Webster asked me @ ehort timo before his dosth, whetber Rufus Choate intended going for Seott? Tf auswered I did not know, but thought not ?"* ‘Well.’ said Mr. Webster, “tell him he bas youth, talents, and a bright fature before him, and I hope he | won't mar all by supportimg Scott, nd tell him as my dying message (9 him, that ofter the second day ef November neat she whig perty, asa national party, will exist only in isin witie above ta the substance of Mr. Harvey's stetemen’ =the words im itslice being his exact words, Mr. Harvey further stated that General Piersve het behaved well towerds Mr. Webster, and was a noble fellow. aud one for whom Mr, Webster entertained gtems afertion, 1 bed no agency in the publication of this conversation, ot apy portion of it. in the Pe: nsyloanian or any other paprs, but merely repented it to some friends~ Mr. Cum- wivgs, of the Bullen, smc ng others. For (be trutb of th» above, I would refer you and tho putiic (o Peer Harvey, bq. and Daniel D. Broihead, eq , formerly MAVY agent of Boston Sir Flarvey will be retmembered as the friend from | whom Mr, Webster parted with theso words;—* pee Tom not £0 sick but that [ know you—TI am well enor tokrow you [am weil enough to love you, and well enough to call down the richest of Heaven's blessings upon you and yours, Harvey.don’t leave me till I am dead don’ vo Marshfield till I am a dead ma king to himself, he said:—° On the 2éth at is mortalef Daniel Webster will be no. Yours reepectfally, JOUN BRODEYAD, Philadelphia, Nov. 1, 185%. 166 Walnut street,